Here it is:
We set out @ 9:00 am from Fundy National Park for a "3 hour tour" (sounds like an old television show right?! Wait for it...) and arrived at Wide Open Wilderness Campground at 7:20 pm. Honestly, it's best to just not ask!
We will say this: we saw 3 neighbourhoods: 1 nice - and to be honest we saw the same woman power walking 3 times, and 2 neighbourhoods not so nice. Each neighbourhood required us to remove our sway bar from the trailer in order to complete the 3 & 5 point turns! In calling our original destination campground 3 times to clarify how we would get there, they kept telling us to take exit 11 off the highway. No problem, we did, & each time we still couldn't find what we were looking for! In a final attempt, I called one more time, this time requesting to speak to an adult, only to discover there's a huge difference between exit 11 off hwy 104 and exit 11 off hwy 102...we exited from 102! We discovered weren't even in the same county!!!
Suffice to say, we found a remote campground just out of Urbania, Nova Scotia. This area tooted their claim to fame from Tidal Bore rafting. Sadly @ 7:30 pm we missed that opportunity. The owners Stanley & Effie (an awesome couple!) came around after we set up & ate our microwaved supper & we shared a Wellington SPA (Guelph Beer) with them and chatted about our day & experiences. They shared their excitement about the Tidal Bore experience and strongly suggested we be there to see it tomorrow. This would mean a 6:30 wake up call for us, but well worth it from what we were being told. They gave us directions to the lookout, left us a golf cart to make our way there in the morning, then quickly added if we saw highway signs we were probably lost and to stop & call them! Everyone is a comedian here!
The Tidal Bore sounded amazing, even though we would not be staying long enough to actually raft, but to see them would be great, because after all "tomorrow's another day" - yet another local quote). And let's face it, over a few beverages with the owners "it is what it is" happens to be a motto used by the locals here too! One for which I have been living by since diagnosis day. Just goes to show ya, 1,000's of km apart, we still speak the same language after a long, windy, hilly, confusing day of travel!
Sending from my iPhone now...pictures to follow when a bigger screen & mouse is available!
That's "pert'near" it for us today...talk to ya tomorrow...
Ken and Tricia
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